Needling Technique

[jolly roger]

At 10:57 PM 6/15/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Carol,
>
>    Pre-needling, beore hanging and evaluating and evaluating the tone, is
>practiced by one of Renners associates, I belive Rick Baldisan (sp)
>something. The technique applies to their (Renners) hammers only.
>
>Dan Reed
>Dallas Chapter 
>
>
Hi Dan,
             I do a certain amount of pre voicing of Abel hammers on the
bench before hanging, then a 330 grit shoe shine to remove all needle
marks.  The amount of voicing after, is reduced to minimal in most cases.
Roger